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Google announces new features for its Maps app, coming soon

by Mike Schramm (May 15th, 2013)

Google I/O is going down today (as you have probably noticed from all of the Google updates), and one of the new products announced there is a new version of the Google Maps app, due out to the App Store later on this summer. Google says the new Maps app will include integrated information from ...

Google Maps updated with Google contact search, local categories

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 5th, 2013)

Google updated its Maps application with several new features that make the app a bit more personal. The biggest change will be in search, which now integrates with your Google contacts. Once you sign in to your Google account with Google Maps, the app will pull in the names and addresses from ...

Google Maps API now open to all iOS developers

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 22nd, 2013)

Back in December when Google launched its Google Maps app for iOS, it also quietly launched a Google maps SDK for iOS developers. The SDK allowed developers to do two things: first, they could embed Google Maps in their apps instead of Apple Maps, and second, they could specify in their apps if ...

Browse through this interactive map of Apple's suppliers worldwide

by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2013)

Apple releases a list of all of its hardware supplier partners about once a year, as part of its Supplier Responsibility program. But the most recent list of suppliers included not only company names, but also addresses for each, and so a site called ChinaFile took all of those addresses and ...

Australian firefighters call Apple Maps 'dangerous'

by Randy Nelson (Feb 13th, 2013)

There seems to be no end to the grievances when it comes to Australia and the inaccuracy of Apple's mapping information. Case in point: The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australia's Country Fire Authority (CFA) is claiming Apple Maps is responsible for creating "potentially dangerous ...

Engadget interviews Daniel Graf about Google Maps for iOS

by Mike Wehner (Jan 30th, 2013)

When it became clear that Apple Maps was quickly falling flat on its face, everyone waited with bated breath to see what Google had up its sleeve for its own standalone maps app. By all accounts, Google Maps for iOS is indeed the cream of the crop, and Engadget recently sat down with Daniel Graf, ...

TUAW's Best of 2012 Personal Picks: Michael Grothaus, and the year that wasn't

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 27th, 2012)

In my opinion, 2012 was a lackluster year for the Apple ecosystem and the tech sector as a whole. Smartphones are now ubiquitous and this is the year the tablet hit mainstream adoption. While those are both good things, the whole touch computing world is now five years old and innovation and ...

iOS 6 spike last weekend due to China, not Google Maps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 21st, 2012)

Earlier this week, mobile ad exchange company MoPub released a report showing a 26 percent increase in iOS 6 adoption over the weekend. The company attributed this jump to the launch of Google Maps. According to a TechCrunch report, rival mobile ad company Chitika claims it is China and not ...

Tip: Use Google Maps as a transit routing provider for Apple Maps

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 20th, 2012)

Now that Google Maps is back on the iPhone, users have plenty of map choices to use. While I prefer Google Maps by a long shot, there are (amazingly) some who like Apple Maps better. Their primary reason: Apple Maps's systemwide integration into iOS. However, a legitimate gripe about Apple ...

iOS 6 adoption grows 29% after release of Google Maps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 19th, 2012)

Apple's launch of iOS was marred by the controversy surrounding its Maps application. The situation was so bad that many people held off on updating to iOS 6 until Google Maps was restored to iOS, says a report by mobile ad exchange company MoPub. MoPub tracks 12,000 mobile apps and noticed a ...

Google Maps for iOS gets more than 10 million downloads right away

by Mel Martin (Dec 17th, 2012)

Talk about some pent-up demand: the refreshed and resurrected Google Maps app had more than 10 million downloads in less than 48 hours. That's the word from Jeff Huber at Google, who put out the numbers via Google+. Most reviews are positive, and a lot of iOS users seem elated to get away from ...

How to use Google Maps with Siri

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 17th, 2012)

For many, the release of Google Maps for iOS was like the Second Coming. However, since Google's maps are no longer integrated directly into iOS, using some features on the iPhone -- like asking Siri for directions -- still opens Apple's Maps app. Thankfully a few workarounds have emerged ...

Talkcast tonight: Navigating the new Maps landscape on iOS 6

by Michael Rose (Dec 16th, 2012)

The App Store featured a new offering this week: Google's much-anticipated native Google Maps app, bringing the full-featured navigation tool (first appearing in iPhone OS 1.1.3 back in January of 2008) back to the platform after iOS 6 replaced the original Maps app backed by Google's data with an ...

Google Maps bumps iOS 6 adoption by just 0.2%

by Mike Wehner (Dec 15th, 2012)

As the shortcomings of Apple Maps became more apparent, a vocal sect of iPhone owners refused to update to the new version of iOS. So, when Google Maps popped up in the App Store today, all those remaining holdouts finally jumped on board, right? Well, not quite. As TechCrunch reports, mobile ad ...

Review: Google Maps for iOS

by Mel Martin (Dec 13th, 2012)

Google is back with a vengeance after Apple unceremoniously dumped them on iOS with a free Google Maps app. People rightly howled about it, especially since the Apple Maps app was slick but undernourished in the data and accuracy departments. Apple's Tim Cook has apologized, and there have ...